Family who left organized marriage bride in vegetative state are jailed
A merciless household who left an organized marriage bride in a vegetative state by ‘dousing her with chemical substances’ and ‘force-feeding her capsules’ have been jailed.
Ambreen Fatima Sheikh had been left in a vegetative state after she fell unconscious 9 years in July 2015 on the Sheik household house in Leeds.
She was flown to Britain from Pakistan after having an organized marriage to Asgar Sheikh, now 31, in 2013.
Asgar Sheikh, 30, her husband, did not name an ambulance for his spouse for 3 days after it was mentioned she was successfully ‘tortured’ and it’s feared she was doused in chemical substances whereas locked away on the household house.
Ambreen’s husband Asgar was sentenced to seven years and 9 months in jail alongside together with her mother-in-law Shabnam and father-in-law Khalid.
Her different two siblings-in-law had been handed suspended sentences.
The Sheikh household had lived of their four-bedroom home in Huddersfield for many years, though neighbours describe how they not often spoke to others.
Husband Asgar Sheikh pictured at Leeds Crown Court
Brother-in-law Shakalayne Sheilkh has been handed a sentence of six months suspended for 2 years
Mother-in-law Shabnam Sheikh has been jailed for seven years and 9 months
Sister-in-law Shagufa Sheikh has been handed a sentence of 18 months, suspended for 2 years
Father-in-law Khalid Sheikh has been jailed for seven years and 9 months
The particulars of the abuse she suffered stay unsure, nevertheless a court docket beforehand heard that Ambreen might have been the sufferer of a attainable ‘torture’ with a chemical substance, and there might have additionally been an try to kill her with a harmful drug.
The court docket heard the possible rationalization for the 38-year-old’s situation was that she had unwillingly swallowed tablets prescribed to her diabetic mother-in-law that resulted in a hypoglycaemic assault.
Such tablets are extraordinarily harmful if taken by non-diabetics and have been dubbed ‘one capsule killers’ to babies.
The prosecution mentioned that the tablets weren’t taken voluntarily and by then the socially remoted and weak Ambreen had suffered a ‘sample of violence’ behind the closed doorways of the terraced home in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire that she shared together with her husband, parents-in-law and brother and sister-in-law.
At 1am on August 1, 2015 the household known as for an ambulance, saying that Ambreen had all of the sudden change into unresponsive.
She by no means regained consciousness and medical proof indicted that their account to paramedics was a lie.
Experts consider in actuality she collapsed unconscious as much as 48 hours earlier and suffered a mind harm when her airway grew to become blocked.
She had been vomiting and incontinent however paramedics discovered her clear and in clear garments after being moved to a different bed room.
Her dirty clothes and bedding had been disposed of in a wheelie bin outdoors and below a tarpaulin downstairs – an try claimed prosecutor Robert Smith, KC, to deflect any police investigation.
Ambreen was not diabetic and several other specialists concluded her situation was the results of hypoglycaemia – a low stage of blood sugar that may trigger mind harm.
Police had been alerted when hospital medical doctors feared Ambreen’s accidents may very well be suspicious. Nurses had been additionally involved she was ‘malnourished’ and ‘unkempt’ in look.
Ambreen was initially placed on a life assist machine and police believed they may quickly be coping with a homicide inquiry.
When the ventilator was switched off Ambreen was in a position to breathe however has remained in a vegetative state with no change in her situation since August 2015.
Ambreen’s husband Asgar Sheikh, proper, together with his brother Sakalyne Sheikh in 2013
Ambreen’s mother-in-law Shabnam Sheikh, left, and sister-in-law Shagufa Sheikh
Ambreen’s father-in-law Khalid Sheikh, 55, and mother-in-law Shabnam
Shagufa, Shabnam and Asgar had been additionally discovered responsible of doing an act aspiring to pervert the course of justice
A jury heard that Ambreen was left mendacity unconscious for as much as three days earlier than her new household known as for an ambulance in July, 2015 – and he or she has by no means regained consciousness
Previously, neighbours of the Sheikh household informed the court docket Ambreen was so remoted they did not know she was there.
Diana Roach, their subsequent door neighbour for 35 years, mentioned ‘every so often’ Khalid’s (Ambreen’s father-in-law) older brother and his kids would go to them.
Asked if she ever noticed anybody else go there, she mentioned: ‘No, I imply I might see supply or postmen and what not however visiting, no.’
From time to time Shagufa, ‘the daughter’, could be seen together with her mom Shabnam coming house from the outlets or serving to with work on the home.
Then in August 2015 police broke into the property with a battering ram after Ambreen was admitted to hospital in an unconscious state.
Police spoke to neighbours and information of what was occurring behind closed doorways got here as a shock.
‘I used to be shocked as a result of I simply did not realise that there was one other individual residing in the home that we weren’t conscious of,’ mentioned Ms Roach.
She mentioned she did not know Asgar had acquired married and his spouse had been residing on the tackle since November.
Another neighbour informed MailOnline that she believed the boys within the Sheikh household labored as builders however knew little about them.
‘They do not discuss to us and so they do not having something to do with anybody round right here actually,’ she mentioned.
‘We had no concept this lady was even in the home. When we noticed it on the information it was a giant shock.’
